Abbott'S Walk

Abbott's Walk is a monastic building, possibly the Abbot's Lodging, now serving as a private residence. It dates from the 14th and 17th centuries, with later 19th-century cart-shed arches added. The structure features coursed rubble-stone walls with stone quoins and slate roofs, which include stone gable-copings and scroll kneelers. There are brick stacks at the far west gable from a 19th-century extension and a 20th-century stack on the rear wall.

The left side of the building has a 19th-century range that is two storeys high, with three windows featuring three-light cast-iron casements with wooden cills, along with a 20th-century two-light wooden casement with lead lights. Segmental stone arches are present, and there is a 20th-century stone porch with a pitched slate roof and a 20th-century door.

The main range includes two cart-shed entrances with segmental stone heads that are now blocked and replaced with 20th-century bow-windows. A 14th-century doorway with jambs and a straight head is blocked low down, with a concrete two-light mullion above. A 17th-century three-light stone mullion window has straight-chamfered jambs and a transom, with fixed wooden windows.

The northeast corner of the building projects as an oratory, featuring an east wall with a window that has two tiers of four-light mullions, each with a trefoil-cusped head from the 14th century. Above this is a three-light stone mullion window, straight-chamfered and from the 17th century. The north elevation has a blocked 14th-century doorway with a four-centred head, a two-light 14th-century window with trefoil-cusping in a square head, and a large 14th-century window that is two-light and transomed with trefoiled ogee heads and a sexfoil-in-circle above, complete with a keeled label. An external stairway with a depressed-arch head leads up to a landing, which has been altered in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Inside, the east wall south of the oratory features a 14th-century head-corbel, with hair surviving but half of the face missing. In the oratory area, there is a 14th-century piscina in the south wall with a trefoil ogee head, a drain, and a credence shelf above. Two plain corbels are located at the springing height of the east window.